Clothes wringer



Aug. 17 1926.

w. ROBERTSON CLOTHES WRING ER FiledFb. 25. 1922 INVEN TOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 1?, 192a.

warren STATES WILLIAM ROBERTSON, F ERIE, PENNSYL VANIA, assioivon T0 LOVELL MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, A. CORPORATION" OF PENNSYL- VANIA.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

Application filed February 25, 1922. SerialNo. 535,111.

It is desirable to supply wringers with a support adjacent to the bite of the rolls both for guiding the clothes to the rolls and fora hand support for the operator in spreading and adjusting the clothes to the rolls. Supports of one type or another have heretofore been used but they have been in the form of rollers, or in the form of stationary plates secured to the frame. l Vith these devices clothes which may become caught on the wringer roll and thus wound with the roll come against the unyielding bar or support and thus injure the cloth One of the objects of the invention is to providea support which will yield. and prevent this result. lVringers usually supplied with drip boards and as wringers are now ordinarily made these drip boards are reversible, particularly for power wrmgers. While these drip boards do accomplish very largely the purpose for whi h they are de signed more or less water is carried over the ends of the boards and over. the rear side of the board. I have provided means for preventing this in the form of gates, preferably pivotally mounted and hung on the supports so that the board may be readily reversed. without attention to these gates.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows V Fig, 1 shows an elevation of a wringer, a part of the frame being broken away to better show construction.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2'-2 in 1 marks the frame, 2 the upper roll, 3 the lower roll, 4 the upper shaft, 5 the lower shaft, 6 a gear on the upper shaft, 7 a gear meshing with the gear 6, and 8 a crank for driving the roll, it being understood. however, that for the ordinary washing machine the driving connection is substituted for the crank. The upper shaft is mounted in bearings 9 and the lower shaft is mounted in bearings 10, the upper bearings being movable in the frame in the usual manner. Springs '11 exert pressure on the upper bearings and these are engaged by a cross bar 13, the cross bar being adjusted by the usual screw 14:.

The drip board 15 has the upturned edges 16, these edges being provided with slots 17. Pins 18 extend through the slots 17 into the frame and form a means of support for the drip board. his is a common construction, the slot permitting the drip board to be moved along the pin so as to reverse the drip board, the drip board swinging to reverse inclinations as the board is moved vto bring the opposite ends of the slot into engagement with the pins.

Asupporting bar 19 is mounted adjacent to and below the bite of the rolls. bar is yieldingly' mounted preferably by having the arms 20 extend upwardly from the ends of the bar, these arms being pivotal ly secured to ears 21 on the. frame by pins '22. These supports are ordinarily provided at the front and rear .of the wringer so as to provide for the reverse action of the wringer. It will be seen that these supporting barslS) are free to swing outwardly from the rolls and thus to clear any clothes or other material that may be wound on to the roll.

A gate 23 is pivotally mounted on hooks 21 extending from the bottom of the sup-- port 19. There is preferably one of these gates on each support and there is one at the front and one at the rear of the rolls. The gate at the front of the roll will hang practically free and perpendicularly allowing sufficient space for the water to discharge under it and at the same time it checksthe water so as to prevent it splashing over the edges 16. The gate at the rear of the wrin'ger is swung to an inclination as the board is tilted and tends to prevent any discharge of water over the rear end of the board. These gates are so hung as to permit the free swinging of the drip board without attention of the. operator as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

1V hat I claim as new is 1. In a clothes wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted on the frame: a reversible inclined drip board mounted in the frame below the rolls, said board QX tending in a single plane through the frame and beyond the plane of the face of the rolls at both sides of the frame; and pivotally mounted gates carried by the frame at the sides of the wringer the gate at the high side of the board extending downwardly into sufficiently close relation with the drain board to prevent movement of water toward the high side of the board.

2'. In a elothes wi g r, the combieeti e i drip Tliis a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a reversible drip board mounted in the frame below the rolls; and gates at the front and rear of the rolls, said gates being pivotally mounted and carried by the frame and extending downwardly into suiliciently close relation with the board to prevent the move ment of irate toward the high side ot the board.

In a clothes W'ringer, the combination of frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a reversible drip board mounted in the frame below the rolls; and gates at the "front and of the rolls, said gates being gfibrotally mounted and carried by the frame, and ex:- tending downwardly into close relation With the board, the gate at the rear having its bottom resting on the board and inciined toward the 5511116 side of the Wringer as the board.

in a clothes Wringer the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in tl e frame; a drip board mounted in the frame below the rolls;

'a support pivoted to the frame; and a pivotally mounted below the bite of the rolls carried by the support and extending downclothes Wring'er the combination rolls mounted in the frame; mounted in the frame below olis' a tame; and a gate hung on the'support and extending downwardly into close rela-v tion with the board.

6. In a ii'lothes wringer the eomhinatirm P or a frame; rolls mounted 1n the trame; a reversible drip board mounted in the frame below the rolls; supports a ranged the front and rear of the rolls adjacent to and below the bite of the ro s a pivotal mounting for the supports; and gates pivotally mounted and hung on said sip weirdly to the drip board and permitting the tree swinging; of the drip board as it is reversed.

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support pivotally mounted on ports, said gates extending down- 45 

